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Imagining Accessibility: Theorizing Disability in Disabled People Destroy Science Fiction

Disability Studies Quarterly, 2020
With its emphasis on futurity, its close association with scientific plausibility, and its dedicated interrogation of contemporary ideologies, science fiction stands as a genre ripe with possibilities for disability studies.
Matthew Holder
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Fictions climatiques. Introduction

ReS Futurae, 2023
Introduction to the special section “Climate fictions”
Irène Langlet, Aurélie Huz
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Enjeux textuels d’une lecture féministe de la science-fiction

ReS Futurae, 2023
Can literary theory, and specifically theories of science fiction, teach us something about feminist readings of science fiction? This paper upholds such a view, while qualifying it at once by adding that the role of theory is not to settle debates by ...
Richard Saint‑Gelais
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The Other in Science Fiction as a Problem for Social Theory [PDF]

Sotsiologicheskoe Obozrenie / Russian Sociological Review, 2020
The paper discusses science fiction literature in its relation to some aspects of the socio-anthropological problem, such as the representation of the Other. Given the diversity of sci-fi genres, a researcher always deals either with the direct representation of the Other (a creature different from an existing human being), or with its indirect ...
Vladimir Kamnev, Vladimir Bystrov
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On the Practical and Theoretical Possibility of Exploiting Science Fiction for Urban Planning

European Journal of Creative Practices in Cities and Landscapes, 2020
In recent years, cities and districts, such as Songdo City in South Korea, King Abdullah Economic City in Saudi Arabia, or Singapore, have been planned, built and rebuilt in adherence to the guiding principle of a “Smart City”.
Peter Klimczak
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THE CONCEPT OF MULTIPLE IDENTITY IN TRANSHUMANIST LITERATURE (THE CASE STUDY OF D. BRIN’S VISION)

Russian Studies in Culture and Society, 2023
This paper deals with one of the urgent problems in the framework of the implementation of the latest radical technologies of “human enhancement” the so-called theory of multiple identity (multiple “I”, the theory of doubles, and the duplication of ...
Yulia V. Khvastunova
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Utopias and Dystopias in Last and First Men (1930) by William Olaf Stapledon [PDF]

Caietele Echinox
This paper aims at analyzing utopias and dystopias in Last and First Men (1930) by William Olaf Stapledon. Taking into consideration that this narrative was already defined as a scientific romance and an anatomy with allegorical status, as well as ...
Iren Boyarkina
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Cognitive Aspects of Reception of Popular Literary Genres and Their Historical Variability [PDF]

Studia Litterarum, 2021
In the article, the author investigates connections between historical variability of literary genres and readers’ ability to recognize them. Following J.-M.
Artem A. Zubov
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Bodies That Count: Augmentation, Community, and Disability in a Science Fiction Game

Journal of Literary & Cultural Disability Studies, 2020
:The article examines the overlaps between disability studies and digital game studies through an analysis of the science fiction digital game Deus Ex: Mankind Divided.
D. Carr
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Binary Opposition “Man-Machinery” in R. Bradbury Science Fiction Works: A Cognitive Linguistic Approach

Arab World English Journal, 2020
This paper focuses on cognitive-linguistic features of the binary opposition “man-machinery” in the science fiction works by R. Bradbury. The article aims to determine the means of the verbal representation of “man-machinery” and build frame models of ...
K. Podsievak, I. Sieriakova, Oxana Franko   +2 more
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